With the citation of this memorable sentence,--unadulterated by any comment, I shall conclude this address to your Lordship, submitting at the same time my own impressions on the subject:--that, to search for its correct exposition is reverential to the law: to crave its elucidation from its exalted minister is an act of respectful deference:--this solicitude is increased from the consideration that the written opinion of the medical practitioner is deposed on oath, and that he is examined by the commissioners and jury under the same awful responsibility:--therefore, when the solemnity of that obligation is contemplated, the anxiety for accurate information will scarcely require an apology. I am, my Lord, with the utmost respect, your Lordship's very obedient servant, JOHN HASLAM. _No. 2, Hart Street, Bloomsbury, May, 1823._ _Works by the same Author._ OBSERVATIONS on MADNESS and MELANCHOLY. ILLUSTRATIONS of MADNESS, with a plate. On the MORAL MANAGEMENT of the INSANE. MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE, as it relates to INSANITY. A LETTER to the GOVERNORS of BETHLEM HOSPITAL. SOUND MIND, or the Physiology of Intelligent Beings. *** A new edition of the OBSERVATIONS on MADNESS and MELANCHOLY, with considerable additions, will shortly appear. *** Printed by G. Hayden, Little College Street, Westminster. FOOTNOTES: [A] The following citation was introduced, with some comments, in my work on MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE, as it relates to INSANITY, according to the Law of England, 1817, which is now out of print. [B] Lord Portsmouth's Commission. [Transcriber's Note: Other than one correction (p. 8, 'ideot' to 'idiot' in 'when the person was represented as not being idiot ex nativitate'), all archaic and unusual spelling (e.g. idiotcy) has been left as in the original.]